Perspectives on Long COVID-19 and work – recording and literature

This is a recording of an online summit aiming to clarify dilemmas in clinical and non-clinical practice relating to Long COVID-19 and a complex new condition and place it in a societal context.

It covered:

• What are the best current clinical approaches to improve functional capacity? ·
• How can we link with the NHS offer, better? ·
• What are current gaps in research? ·
• What critical actions are now required?

Agenda

• Welcome Professor Ewan Macdonald, OBE, University of Glasgow
• Chair, President of the Society of Medicine Professor Anne Harriss
• The size of the problem – why is Long Covid important?  Dr Nisreen Alwan, University of Southampton
• What is long COVID?
  • Clinical perspectives from a multidisciplinary view – Dr Clare Rayner
  • Long Covid Support – Lesley MacNevin
  • A US perspective – Dr David Strain – BMA David Putrino – Mt Sinai, Head of Rehab –
• Government and NHS offer Alex Norris, MP, Shadow Minister (Health and Social Care) Cathy Hassell, NHS E, and I Q and A
• Perspectives on return to work with long COVID An Occupational Medicine perspective – Dr Tony Williams
• Rehabilitation perspectives – Dr John Etherington
• Physiotherapy perspectives – Colette Owen
• VR perspectives on early intervention – Deborah Edwards, VRA Chair
• What are the research gaps… and next steps? Panel discussion

Listen to the recording here.

Other resources:

Resources Long COVID return to work guide

Manager’s leaflet

New research – characteristics of Long Covid: findings from a social media survey